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Theranos Withdraws Two Years of Blood Test Results (cnbc.com)
Reader Major Blud writes: Theranos, the company valued at $9 billion that promised to revolutionize the way blood testing is done, has just announced that it has withdrawn all of the test done using its Edison machine performed in 2014 and 2015. The company recently come under fire from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the inaccuracy and unreliability of the machine, and threatened to revoke the company's license as well as ban CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes, and its president and COO, Sunny Balwani, from blood testing.
More evidence that the geniuses in silicon valley know exactly what they are doing and clearly have earned their vast wealth because they are so f-in smart
it does say that they were reluctant to reveal any trade secrets about their device all along.
No, that's what they claimed was the reason they didn't publish anything.
Normally companies let scientists publish results in refereed publications, and file patents to protect the money-making potential.
The lack of publications for a supposedly new technique was an enormous red flag.
Yeah. And it's not like Obama inherited a multi-trillion dollar unwinnable war on terror and a housing market collapse from the ass monkey who held the office before him.
Oh wait, it's exactly like that.